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A week ago Matt Taibbi posted the column “The bell finally tolls for the FBI” behind the paywall at Racket News. The column reviewed a fair share of recent history to argue for the need to reconstruct the FBI and made a compelling case for Trump nominee Kash Patel as director. Taibbi argues, for example:

After everything that’s taken place, it’s unsafe for Trump to do anything but bonfire the whole FBI leadership structure, including probably the entire National Security and Counterintelligence Divisions, for starters. Control over the FBI is the critical test of how real any coming changes will be. In the last eight-plus years, the Bureau went beyond the excesses of the J. Edgar Hoover era, attempting to install itself as a KGB-like domestic intelligence service with gatekeeping power over everything from the White House to the speech landscape. Forget Trump: we are not safe unless its bureaucracy is fully dismantled.

Now Taibbi has posted an accessible audio version of the column as a podcast. Running 23 minutes, it both entertains and instructs. I thought some readers who missed the paywalled version of Taibbi’s column might want to take advantage of the opportunity to hear Taibbi’s argument.